Today we’d like to introduce you to Sacha Richter.
Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
I was born in London England, lived as a young boy with John and Yoko in Ascot at their Tittenhurt Estate. I moved from England with my family to live in the Hotel Chelsea in NYC. At a very young age, I eventually moved to Provincetown, MA and grew up there until going to College for art. My grandfather lived in Provincetown, I was heavily influenced by him, he was a cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine for over 50 years, his name was Mischa Richter. After finishing art school in Boston, I returned to Provincetown where I have been working as an artist ever since. I also have a home in the West Indies where I paint as well. I have shown my work in Boston, Provincetown, West Indies and in the Hamptons.
Please tell us about your art.
My paintings exhibit an equilibrium between observation and method and are carefully crafted through a process of painting within a specific and unique topography. The landscape of outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts, offers a sharp differentiation of elements- water, sky, and land, and is a place that is evolving and changing under the continuing effects of dramatic natural and cultural influences. It’s a rugged environment, and the sharp seasonal differentiations offer incidences of reflection for the range of human emotive capacities. My work within this landscape is about an inclusive and distanced placement, and the viewers of these works are positioned within this engagement.
The processes involved in making these paintings offer an experience for both artist and viewer that reflects the inherent quality of place. While the armature of structural features in these compositions is in fact drawn from the careful observation of specific and known regional sites, they support an accumulation of painterly actions that seem transitory- exhibiting specific occurrences of nature within time. The brief ephemeral effect of a gust of wind over a pond surface or the breaking of low evening sun through a density of pine trees are embodied within decisive and concrete material actions.
The conduction of observation into painted materiality is reserved and nuanced, revealing an involvement with a craft that asks rather than declares revelatory communication. One senses both the artist’s presence and the experience of place within these works in equal measure. I invite the host and the works become receptive of a nature that is both inclusive and larger than self.
What do you think about conditions for artists today? Has life become easier or harder for artists in recent years? What can cities like ours do to encourage and help art and artists thrive?
I think that becoming an artist has always been a challenge, first to discover your own creative process, then to find a way to expose people to your work. Life is harder than ever for artist’s, an artist needs quiet and uninterrupted time to produce, with today’s pressure on housing being difficult enough, the ability to afford a painting studio and the time to work is getting harder and harder. Cities need to create affordable studio space for artists to work in.
How or where can people see your work? How can people support your work?
I show occasionally at Galleries and primarily show my work out of my studio, which is located in the heart of the gallery district in Provincetown’s east end.
Contact Info:
- Address: 459 Commercial street Provincetown, MA 02657
- Website: www.sacharichter.com
- Phone: 508.487.3060
- Email: sacha@sacharichter.com
- Instagram: sacharichter
Image Credit:
Sacha Richter
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